I have never been enslaved by technology. My family did not get the Internet till 2000. I never really had AIM. I did not get a cell phone till I was sixteen, text messaging till I was seventeen and an iPod till I was eighteen.
I spent my days at school where would come home and I would not see the inside of my house till it was time to eat. My brother and I would play basketball, street hockey and baseball with the neighborhood kids. We rode our bikes through mud and peoples yards, scraped our knees, built tree houses by taking wood from nearby construction sites. It was not till I needed technology did I use it.
Of course I thought I could write this post just by reading the titles, but I had to read them just so I could think the opposite.
I do find it scary what Brandi said about children dyeing young due to video games, but the reality never strikes me because I don't get it because that was not me. I believe that technology is what we make it and we can choose how it will make us. Inventions and advancement in technology only does not necessarilt make us dumber or more lazy becuase it only allows us to allocate our time to other tasks and away from simple problems that we have solved. The wheel, fire, written word, computers and cell phones only give us opportunities to create more and hopefully that is how we treat it.
Technology has a mind of its own and we have to respect it. I have seen iRobot (no thanks).
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